Sports briefs

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

Rep honours to Hawke’s BayHawke's Bay proved too good for Poverty Bay-East Coast in their men’s interprovincial matchplay golf exchange in Gisborne over the weekend.

The visitors beat PBEC 7-3 at Gisborne Park on Saturday, then won 6-4 at Poverty Bay’s Awapuni Links yesterday.

William Brown and Andrew Higham won both their matches for the 10-man home side comprising senior and masters players.

Peter Clayton had a win for PBEC on Saturday and Peter Stewart and Pete Anderson had wins for the hosts yesterday.

The teams were a mixture of senior and masters (over-40s) players as the provinces build up to the Toro national interprovincial and Freyberg Masters tournaments in November.

Strong finish by McDonaldGisborne golfer Tessa McDonald finished tied for 11th at the North Island women’s strokeplay at Whakatane Golf Club yesterday.

McDonald finished strongly after just making the halfway cut to total 299 over the 72 holes — carding 74, 79, 72, 74.

The tournament was won by Akarana’s Fiona Xu on 9-under 275 (65, 68, 71, 71), three strokes ahead of Shandon’s Darae Chung (71, 69, 69, 69).

McDonald was back in action today as top seed at the Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay Women’s Open.